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Battle of Ras Kamboni
The Battle of Ras Kamboni was a January 2007 fight in southern Somalia where Somali and Ethiopian forces captured Islamic Courts Union remnants, with US air strikes.
Battle of Ras Lanuf
The Battle of Ras Lanuf was a March 2011 battle of the Libyan Civil War, in which Gaddafi's forces retook the oil town of Ras Lanuf from rebels.
Battle of Raszyn (1809)
The Battle of Raszyn (Bitwa pod Raszynem), fought on 19 April 1809 near Warsaw, saw Prince Józef Poniatowski's outnumbered Polish army hold off the Austrians for seven hours.
Battle of Ratisbon
The Battle of Ratisbon was the French storming of Regensburg, a fortified Danube town in Bavaria, on 23 April 1809, in the War of the Fifth Coalition.
Battle of Ravine-à-Couleuvres
The Battle of Ravine-à-Couleuvres was fought on 23 February 1802 between Toussaint Louverture and a French column under General Rochambeau, during Napoleon's expedition to reconquer Saint-Domingue.
Battle of Ray
The Battle of Ray (نبرد ری) was a 1194 battle near Ray, south of Tehran, where the Khwarazmshah Tekish defeated and killed the last Seljuk sultan, Tughril III.
Battle of Red Cliffs
The Battle of Red Cliffs, also called the Battle of Chibi, was a winter 208 CE Yangtze River battle where Sun Quan and Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao.
Battle of Rehe
The Battle of Rehe (熱河作戦), also known as the Jehol campaign, was the 1933 operation by which Japan's Kwantung Army seized Rehe province for Manchukuo.
Battle of Rellano
The Battle of Rellano was the name given to two 1912 engagements of the Mexican Revolution at the Rellano railroad station in Chihuahua, between Pascual Orozco's rebels and federal forces.
Battle of Remagen
The Battle of Remagen, also called the Remagen Bridgehead, was the ten-day March 1945 fight over the Ludendorff Bridge, captured intact by the US 9th Armored Division.
Battle of Rennell Island
The Battle of Rennell Island was a January 1943 naval battle of the Guadalcanal campaign in which Japanese torpedo bombers sank the heavy cruiser USS Chicago.
Battle of Resaca
The Battle of Resaca was a Civil War battle fought May 13–15, 1864, at Resaca, Georgia, where Sherman's Union armies fought Johnston's Confederates in the Atlanta campaign's first major engagement.
Battle of Rezang La
Battle of Rezang La, 18 November 1962 last stand of Charlie Company, 13 Kumaon under Major Shaitan Singh (Param Vir Chakra) at Rezang La pass near Chushul, Ladakh; 114 of about 120 all-Ahir soldiers died halting the Chinese advance before the 21 November ceasefire.
Battle of Rhandeia
The Battle of Rhandeia was a defeat of a Roman army by Parthian and Armenian forces in the winter of 62 CE, during the Roman-Parthian War of 58–63.
Battle of Riachuelo
The Battle of Riachuelo (Batalha Naval do Riachuelo) was a naval battle fought on 11 June 1865 near Corrientes, where Brazil defeated Paraguay's fleet in the Paraguayan War.
Battle of Riade
The Battle of Riade, also called the Battle of Merseburg, was King Henry I of East Francia's victory over a Magyar raiding army on 15 March 933.
Battle of Riau (1784)
The Battle of Riau (1784) was the decisive engagement of the Riau War, in which a Dutch fleet under Admiral van Braam killed Raja Haji Fisabilillah near Melaka.
Battle of Ridaniya
The Battle of Ridaniya (الريدانية) was fought on 22 January 1517 near Cairo between the Ottoman army of Selim I and the Mamluk army of Tuman bay.
Battle of Rio Nuevo
A June 1658 battle at the mouth of the Rio Nuevo river in Jamaica, where Colonel Edward D'Oyley's English force defeated a Spanish expedition under Cristóbal Arnaldo de Isasi.
Battle of Riobamba
The Battle of Riobamba, also known as the combat of Tapi, was a cavalry battle of 21 April 1822 in the Ecuadorian Andes, where Sucre's patriots defeated the royalist cavalry.
Battle of Rivers' Bridge
Battle of Rivers' Bridge (also Rivers Bridge), fought February 2-3, 1865 on the Salkehatchie River in Bamberg County, South Carolina: about 1,200 Confederates under Colonel George P. Harrison resisted Mower's division of Sherman's army, the only major resistance to Sherman's march through the state.
Battle of Romhány
The Battle of Romhány (romhányi csata), fought on 22 January 1710 near Romhány in Nógrád county, Hungary, was the last significant open battle of Rákóczi's War of Independence.
Battle of Roncevaux Pass
Battle of Roncevaux Pass (Errozabal, Roncesvalles): 15 August 778 ambush in which Basques destroyed Charlemagne's rearguard in the Pyrenees, his only defeat; later transformed into the Muslim enemy in the Song of Roland.
Battle of Rorke's Drift
Battle of Rorke's Drift, 22–23 January 1879 Anglo-Zulu War action: about 150 British defenders under Chard and Bromhead repelled some 4,000 Zulus led by Dabulamanzi, earning eleven Victoria Crosses.
Battle of Rosillo Creek
The Battle of Rosillo Creek, fought March 29, 1813 near San Antonio, Texas, saw the Republican Army of the North rout a Spanish royalist army in about an hour.
Battle of Rossbach
Battle of Rossbach (Roßbach), 5 November 1757, Seven Years' War battle in Saxony where Frederick the Great's 22,000 Prussians with Seydlitz's cavalry crushed a 45,000-strong Franco-Imperial army under Soubise and Saxe-Hildburghausen in under two hours.
Battle of Route Coloniale 4
The Battle of Route Coloniale 4, the Việt Minh Border Campaign of 1950, destroyed about eight French battalions and forced France to abandon most of the Vietnam–China frontier.
Battle of Rovine
The Battle of Rovine was a late 14th-century clash between Mircea the Elder of Wallachia and Sultan Bayezid I's Ottomans, its date, place, and outcome disputed.
Battle of Rozgony
The Battle of Rozgony (Hungarian: rozgonyi csata) was fought on June 15, 1312, at Rozgony near Kassa, where King Charles I of Hungary defeated the sons of Amadeus Aba.
Battle of Run
The Battle of Run (Rhun) was a fight between the English and Dutch East India companies for a nutmeg island in the Banda archipelago, ending with the 1667 Treaty of Breda.